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The Falling Walls 2020 conference hosted a debate entitled “Does CERN need another supercollider?” and gave a prize to the ATTRACT project
The EIPM-Peter Kraljic Awards celebrate purchasing organisations that demonstrate high levels of creativity, innovation and respect for the environment and society
Carlo Rubbia was recognised for his promotion of sustainable nuclear energy use and natural-gas pyrolysis
CERN received the 2017 Award for Contribution to Science Communication to CERN from he Czech Republic’s Academia Film Olomouc
The CERN Procurement and Industrial Services group has been awarded the EIPM - Peter Kraljic Award for Innovation and Process Excellence
Rolf Heuer has been appointed Chevalier de la Légion d'honneur (Knight of the Legion of Honour)
Michel Della Negra, Peter Jenni and Tejinder Virdee, former spokespersons of ATLAS and CMS, will be presented with the 2017 W.K.H. Panofsky Prize
This summer CERN welcomed the winning students of the 2016 Higgs Prize, sponsored by the Scottish Government.
Young Turkish student Baris Volkan Gürses visited CERN from 4 to 8 July after winning the prize in the 2015 European Contest for Young Scientists
The Sharing Knowledge Foundation Prize was presented to the ATLAS physicist at a ceremony on 18 March
The High Energy and Particle Physics (HEPP) Division of the European Physical Society (EPS) has announced the winners of its 2015 prizes